If you'd only been exposed to drifting through its origins — touge canyon racing in Japan or grassroots parking lot dorifto in AE86 Toyotas — you may not know most competitive drifters swap V8s into their Japanese compacts. Like Corey Hosford's blown, 800-hp, LS3-powered KSport Nissan 350Z.

This week on Tuned, Matt Farah gets a lungful of atomized tire, and a drift lesson from Hosford, Formula Drift's own Lt. Dangle — sans police-issue Daisy Dukes — at the Bondurant School of High Performance Driving.

Under the hood is an LS3 with a Magnuson supercharger perched atop. There's also a separate set of rear brakes for the hydraulic handbrake, as well as a kit that provides nearly 60 degrees of steering angle at full lock, a must-have for the sliding arts of sideways motorsport.

Also, you may think drift cars are set up with a loose rear. Not so! The rear's set up tight and grippy to preserve forward momentum, with traction limits overcome by brute force when needed.